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there isn't one, unless you think you shouldn't be free to make decisions like participating in the gig economy.

• quadrangle 8y ago
  the full claim being countered wasn't "workers should be free to participate in the gig economy", it included "it's a free market" which is the part more easily countered. Uber's market is a market, but it's certainly not a free market.
• repsilat 8y ago
  That's not terribly helpful. Plenty of people take that freedom as an axiomatic, inviolable good or right, but reasonable people can have different values. Some people believe that those freedoms are necessarily a net win for the economy, but that's a pretty shallow argument too. Maybe workers' rights are a race to the bottom, a tragedy of the commons -- perhaps some small amount of regulation would be good for business and for workers, by forcing companies to spend a small amount more to get a more sustainable workforce without giving up advantages to competitors. Obviously these freedoms and protections exist on a continuum. We've mostly come down on the side of minimum wages, which is a compromise on those fundamental, absolute freedoms -- in a sense all "workers rights" are curtailments of "jobseekers rights".